Aeneas Ranaldson MacDonell (1818)

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Josephine (Bennet) MacDonell — married 18 Dec 1833 in Rhu, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom [uncertain]

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Biography

Glengarry was killed on the 14th of January, 1828, attempting to get ashore from the wrecked steamer Stirling Castle, at Corran, near Fort-William, when he was succeeded by his only surviving son, Aeneas Ranaldson MacDonell, Sixteenth of Glengarry, who (born 19th July, 1818) married, on the 18th of December, 1833, Josephine, eldest daughter of William Bennet, grand-niece of Right Rev. William Bennet, Bishop of Cloyne, with issue –

1. Alastair Ranaldson, his heir.

2. Aeneas Robert, born in 1835. He was a distinguished student, having secured the highest prizes at Chatham. He was drowned in the Medway in 1855, in the twentieth year of his age.

3. Charles Ranaldson, who, on the death of his eldest brother, in 1862, became representative of the family.

4. Marsali, who, in 1869, married Hector Frederick Maclean, Edinburgh, without issue. Mrs. Maclean is now the lineal representative of the family and possesses “Craggan-an-fhithich,” with the ruin of the old castle (burnt by Cumberland in 1746) thereon, and the old family burying-ground, with other interesting family relics. These are all that now remain to the extensive inheritance of the race.

5. Eliza, who, in 1857, died unmarried, in the 18th year of her age.

6. Helen Rebecca, who, in 1866, married Captain John Cunninghame of Balgownie, with issue – John Alastair Erskine, born in 1869, and Helen Josephine Erskine. Captain Cunninghame died in 1879…

Aeneas Ranaldson, who thus sold the property so long inherited by his distinguished ancestors, was succeeded as representative of the family by his eldest son, Alastair Ranaldson MacDonell, Seventeenth of Glengarry, born in 1834. He died, unmarried, in New Zealand, in 1862, when he was succeeded as representative of the family (his next brother, Aeneas Robert, having died in 1855) by his second brother, Charles Ranaldson Macdonell, Eighteenth of Glengarry, born in 1838. He married, in 1865, Agnes Campbell, eldest daughter of Alexander Cassels, without issue. He died, on his way home from New Zealand, in June, 1868, being (failing any descendants of Major Charles Macdonell, youngest son of John Macdonell, twelfth of Glengarry, who emigrated to America, and was killed at Saint John, Newfoundland in 1762), the last male of the line of Glengarry from Alastair Dubh, son of Ranald II. of Scotus who succeeded to Glengarry on the death of Lord Macdonell and Arros in 1682…

According to this Scotus claim, which has been admitted by the Lyon King at Arms, on the death of Charles Ranaldson Macdonell, eighteenth of Glengarry, 28th of June, 1868, he was succeeded as representative of the family by his remote cousin, Aeneas Ranaldson Macdonell, Seventh of Scotus, and nineteenth of Glengarry, who died on the 24th of October in the same year ; whereupon (his eldest son, Aeneas Ranald, having predeceased him), he was succeeded by his grandson, Aeneas Ranald Westrop Macdonell, Born 5th December, 1847, as twentieth representative and present chief of Glengarry. He married, in 1874, Catherine Frances, only daughter of Henry Herries Creed, with issue –

1. Aeneas Ranald, his heir, born 8th of August, 1875.

2. Alastair Somerled

3. Marion Lindsay.

Source: Macdonalds of Glengarry By Alexander Mackenzie, 1881. Pages 58-85.

Aenas was born in 1808 not 1818. He married on Dec 12 1833, all other sources say 1818

Per: Charmi McCutcheon 19 May 2023

Sources

• Macdonalds of Glengarry By Alexander Mackenzie, 1881. Pages 58-85.